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#Bestof2021: How Washington views the turbulent Eurasian empires of Russia and China. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted November 7, 2021)

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#Bestof2021: How Washington views the turbulent Eurasian empires of Russia and China. H. J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted November 7, 2021)

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This is the Friends of History Debating Society, I'm John Bachelor, visiting with Professor

1:09.2

H.J. Mackender, International Relations, commenting on the Eurasian Empire's Russia and China

1:17.1

in Moscow and Beijing, and their rush to modernize leading to the catastrophe of the 20th

1:23.5

century, the blood-soaked history of their communist parties.

1:28.1

However, here we are in the 21st century, and the Washington establishment has opinions.

1:35.4

The question is, are these opinions helpful, accurate, revelatory?

1:40.9

How do you measure the opinion of the Eurasian empires right now in Washington, Professor?

1:46.2

Well, I would be quite surprised to hear any serious discussion of either the Russian

2:00.0

spear, the Russian world, or the Chinese world, from a cultural point of view, or more

2:09.7

equally importantly, I would be very surprised to hear the question asked.

2:16.1

These countries realize that they have made terrible mistake for perhaps the century.

2:23.6

Now they want to reconstruct themselves to what they should be, and they want a new plan,

2:31.2

they want new ideas, and they're going to dig in their history, not in our history,

2:36.2

but in their history, to find these ideas, because that's what countries do.

2:40.9

They look to their own path.

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